HidyBush

Curious how somehow if ten developers work together they are a nice community that needs to be supported, but the moment they sign a few documents and become a company they immeditely become a soulless entity whose exploitation, ridicule and abuse is morally justifiable.

I confused you with the person I originally replied to.

Still, my solution still allows to have a passwordless bootloader if you choose to not set a password, so I really don't get what would be wrong with it.

I'm not understanding your argument. You say that unlocking a bootloader is dangerous, so what's your solution? You can't have non-unlockable bootloaders because that would mean a loss of hardware functionality, which you just suggested you consider unacceptable. You can't have easily unlockable bootloaders because that would be dangerous. So now what?

I proposed a very reasonable solution that gives the user control AND responsibility of their own device. If you don't want the responibility (and the control) then stick with your manufacturer's locked bootloader and never touch it.

I don't know about you but I would really like if my work phone had a company-set bootloader lock just like my work laptop has a company-set BIOS lock in case someone steals it or gets lost. There are plenty of professional and personal reasons why my solution would make a lot of sense in my opinion.

No, the password is only to lock-unlock the bootloader. If you forget it you won't be able to install a new ROM but you will still be capable of upading your OS or factory resetting it

The Galaxy S3 could do everything back in the day, it was and still is plenty powerful. Banking apps, messaging apps, social networks, web browsing, etc. Of course it won't do fancy real-tike Snapchat filters and AI image recognition, but if Android 4.4.x was indefinitely maintained I would have zero problems using one today.

This could be easily solved if manufacturers simply allowed for using a unique password to unlock the bootloader. Want to install a custom ROM? Simple! Put the phone in recovery mode, insert the unique manufacturer-provided password, unlock the bootloader, flash the new ROM, go back to recovery, change the password to one of your choosing, lock the bootloader again, add the ROM's official private key to enable safe boot.

This is entirely possible, and yet nobody wants to make it accessible.

This is such a disingenuous reply.

We are not talking about cyanide here or some strange nutrient that you can overdose if you're not careful. A serving of whole grains every day (just read the back of the box if you're unsure what the quantities are) is solely beneficial for you and unless you have a medical condition you simply can't go wrong.

an excessive consuption of refined grains is bad, eating the right amount of whole grains is solely beneficial

Apple pays in order to distribute the codec on their devices, and since hackintoshes are very uncommon and iOS can't be installed anywhere else they aren't worried about those rare cases. Also Linux has nothing to do with video codecs. Microsoft and Apple have to pay because they are based in the U.S. VLC claims to get away with it because they're in France but the situation is not totally clear.

Could it be that Microsoft is selling the codec extension because MPEG-LA would otherwise ask them to pay a fee for every single Windows installation with the codec included? and since Windows is very often pirated Microsoft would be paying fees for installations nobody paid for, effectively losing money.

Imagine a world where if you cite a paper on your thesis you have to provide the NFT transaction ID so it can be checked if you acquired the article via the official blockchain

It's the first mover's advantage. When someone reports you everyone becomes suspicious and if you try to use the same tactics you get scoffed at and ignored.

Multiplication outside of positive integers is not "repeated addition".

It took us thousands of years to properly define real numbers. High school students can live without a perfect explanation, or we can just teach limits before college since they are the fundamental concept if calculus.

Irrational numbers are limits of sequences of rational numbers. Multiplying two real numbers is simply taking the limit of a sequence of multiplications between rational numbers that converge to the two real ones.

I mean, this is true for every operation once you extend it to a new domain.

What is exponentiation? is 5^6 multiplying 5 for 6 times? sure, but how about 5^(-6)? what's up with that? and 5^(1/2)? and don't get me started on 5^(2/3)

Queueing is niche?

If you have to program ANYTHING that serves requests and has a limited buffer you enter the domain of queueing theory.

Processing internet packets? Queueing theory.

Developing a distributed system? Queueing theory.

Designing software to manage a call center? Queueing theory.

Shipments? Ticketing? Payments? A myriad of other things? Queueing theory.

Fun fact, while posting this reply HN redirected my to a page "Sorry we're not able to serve your request this quickly". Guess what would have helped?

Queueing theory.

I disagree. There are things that should be required for a software engineer to know. Queueing theory comes to mind

"How I successfully became a civil engineer in 3 months"

Brrrrr.

Why the hell this is allowed when talking about software is beyond me.

Very US centric so I won't use it for now, but it's a good start!

I am tired of being charitable to these companies.

Children shouldn't drive cars, they shouldn't do drugs and they shouldn't use smartphones.

Would you be fine with a beer company making a "safe" version of beer for kids so they get hooked and once they turn 21 they switch to the real stuff and become alcoholics?

Making these devices more "child friendly" is the wrong solution to the problem. Actually, it's the absolute BEST solution if you are Apple and want to calm the parents down and sell more phones and services at the same time. Unfortunately I'm not Apple and my objective regarding my kids is not to maximize profits and push complex technology to people down to the last semi-conscious toddler

>naked photos and videos show the private body parts that are usually covered by underwear or bathing suits

sweet, now the iPhone (which a child shouldn't use in the first place) is nannying the kid and doing "the talk" instead of the parents.

how soon until your phone makes your son sit trough an entire sex-ed class on his first NSFW internet search?

Are you actually suggesting that people in need of this feature care about games on a phone?

>There is no question that you are the pinnacle of evolution

trading one religion for another, huh? pinnacle of creation, pinnacle of fate, pinnacle of evolution...

maybe buddhists got it right centuries ago: shut up, eat your food and clean your bowl, that's life.

it gives you the choice.

do you think the state cares if it sees that you bought a new microwave? no, it's a very normal thing to do and there's no reason to hide it.

do you want to hide buying a house alarm system so nobody would know you have one installed, not even the state? then pay the premium and nobody will know

To me the question is very simple: make a digital currency that has both a completely traceable way of exchanging money and a completely anonymous one.

If you send someone money in the traceable way then the state knows exactly the motives of the transaction and can automatically calculate the taxes you ought to pay on it.

If you send someone money anonymously then you get taxed at the highest bracket possible and nobody asks questions. Are you a drug lord paying his cronies? sure, it's untraceable and safe but 40% goes to the state automatically.

I don't know, "what we can learn from...", "deep insights from...", "the lost benefits of..."?

Can we stop describing every activity as a "science" or an "art"?

are you really this insecure about your endeavors that you have to attach these signifiers to make it look palatable and convince strangers it's not a waste of time?

It would be interesting if this website's height corresponded to the average daily length of a person's infinite-scrolling on their phone

It's incredible how as a society we have accepted that people must spend hours upon hours glued to screens that were never made to be reading devices.

It would be like if we invented sofas before chairs and so every office worker needs to awkwardly work on a sofa instead if sitting on a nice Herman Miller

Linux handheld devices are mostly just toys for people a bit too excited and with too much disposable income.

There might be a couple of uses, such as IT admin or on-location surveyor, where having a very small device with desktop functionalities and ports to plug in instrumentation could be useful.

For the rest of us, smartphones really hit the nail of what people need to do with a pocketable device: the interface has to be simple, the features cannot be extensive and the battery should last quite a bit. I bought a PinePhone because I think it can succeed in being a smartphone with the right software, but I would never waste money on glorified PDAs because they seem useless to me regardless of their capabilities